Oilers Sign Head Coach Kris Knoblauch To Extension - Beritaja

EDMONTON – The Edmonton Oilers signed caput coach Kris Knoblauch to a three-year hold Friday, keeping him nether statement done the 2028-29 season.

Knoblauch has guided the Oilers to consecutive Stanley Cup finals since replacing Jay Woodcroft down the chair connected Nov. 12, 2023.

After a 3-9-1 commencement to the 2023-24 campaign, Edmonton went connected to station a 48-16-5 grounds nether Knoblauch earlier reaching the final, falling successful 7 games to the Florida Panthers.

The 47-year-old from Imperial, Sask., past posted a 48-29-5 grounds successful 2024-25 — his first afloat season. Edmonton went 12-4 done 3 playoff rounds, but again mislaid the last to Florida successful six games.

Knoblauch was successful his 5th play coaching the Hartford Wolf Pack, the New York Rangers’ American Hockey League affiliate, erstwhile he took his first NHL caput coaching occupation pinch the Oilers.

He had antecedently served arsenic an adjunct coach pinch the Philadelphia Flyers from 2017 to 2019, and coached Oilers skipper Connor McDavid for 3 seasons pinch the Ontario Hockey League’s Erie Otters.

Knoblauch besides played inferior lucky for the Western Hockey League’s Edmonton Ice and spent 5 years playing astatine the University of Alberta.

This study by BERITAJA was first published Oct. 3, 2025.